Sliver-conductor and apron-guide for wool-combing machines.



No. 828,968. PATENTBD AUG. 21, 1906.

8 I J.- A. REYNOLDS. .SLIVER CONDUCTOR AND APRON GUIDE FOR WOOL OOMBING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10. 1905.

2 sums-sum No. 828,968. PATENTED AUG. 21, 1906. J. A. REYNOLDS.

SLIVER CONDUCTOR AND APRON GUIDE FOR WOOL GOMBING MACHINES.

1 APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10. 1905.

2 BHEETS-SHBET 2.

uventoz UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

JAMES A. REYNOLDS, OF PRQVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

SLIVER-CONDUCTOR AND APRON-GU'IDE FOR WOOL-COMBING MACHINES.

To all whom, it flea/y concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES A. REYNOLDS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and. useful Improvements in Sliver-Conduc tors and Apron-Guides for Wool-Combing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention constitutes a simple and novel improvement designed particularly for application to wool-combing machines of the,

circle type.

As is well known, combing-machines of this class are designed to comb long and medium fibers of wool from the short fibers, and the invention is applicable to the ordinary form of combing-machines utilizing a large circle-comb and two small circle-combs within the space surrounded by the large comb and operating with the latter in combing the wool. The short fibers are taken from the small circle-combs in the form of noils, and the longer fibers of the wool are taken from the large or maincircle-comb, being conducted from the latter usually by suitable aprons and forming a sliver, and this sliver unites with a sliver of the medium fibers drawn by an apron from the small circle-combs, the

two slivers being then conveyed to the cans or receptacles which are designed to receive them. The operation of the large circle-comb, the small combs, and the aprons which convey the slivers, as above described, is well known to those versed in the art to which the invention appertains, and one of the chief disadvantages arising in the operation of the combing-machines at present commonly in use is due to the fact that the aprons which take the slivers from the combs become ohafed or roughened upon the outer side thereof after a certain period of service, and

thus have a tendency to cause the fibers and sliver from the large comb to overlap its apron, causing thewool to lap at places and making necessary stopping of the comb, and often damaging the aprons and the combs to no small extent. In repairing the machine much time is necessarily lost and labor and expense incurred.

The improvement which constitutes this invention embodies a guide and conductor which is adapted to cooperate with one of the aprons conveying a sliver from the combs in such a way as to prevent said sliver from Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 10,

Patented Aug. 2 1, 1906.

1905. Serial No. 264,711.

overlapping and causing the trouble and expense above described.

For a full description of the invention and the merits" thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which a common form of wool-combing machine, bringing out clearly the arrangement of the aprons, combs, and drawing-off rollers, the invention being shown in applied position in its adaptation as a sliver-conductor and apron-guide. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, the improvement comprising the invention being shown in its capacity as an apron-guide only and also as both an apron-guide and sliver-conductor. Fig. 3 is a perspective view bringing out more clearly the arrangement'of the-sliver-guide and apron-conductor with relation to the apron with which it cooperates. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the guides or conductors embodying the invention alone. of the sliver-guide and conductor.

a top plan view of the guide device.

Corresponding and like parts arereferred to in thefOllowing description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The combing-machine shown in the drawings will be generally described and is of that construction using a main or large circle-comb land the two inner smaller combs 2. These combs 1 and 2 are provided with the usual teeth for combing the wool, and the long fibers are taken from the comb 1 by drawingofi rollers 3 and conveyed. by aprons 4 and 5 to a point where the sliver passes to the drawing-off rollers 6, a pair of which are located. adjacent each of the smaller combs 2, the sliver of the medium fibers uniting with that of the longer fibers drawn from the comb 1 by the aprons 4 and 5 at this point. After passing through the drawing-off rollers 6 the slivers pass to the receptacles arranged to receive the same in the customary manner. The aprons 4 and 5 coact to carry off the sliver of long fibers-drawn from the comb 1, the apron 4 passing about one of the rollers 3, and the apron 5 passes about one of the rollers 6 and coacts with the other of said rollers in drawing off the sliver of medium fibers from the smaller adjacent comb 2.

Fig. 6 is Fig. 5 is a view in elevation- Figure 1: is a plan view showing in outline The apronguide and sliverconductor which comprises this invention is arranged on the outside of each apron 5 at a point marked A in the drawings, and this device consists of a vertical standard 7, which carries a guide member 8, said standard 7 being substantially mounted so that the guide member 8 is adjacent the apron 5 at the point A above mentioned. The guide mem ber 8 is preferably made of a plate-having a vertical edge rolled, as shown at 9, so as to receive the standard 7. The horizontal top or bottom edges of said plate are curved out wardly therefrom and bent toward each other to form the curved guide-flanges 10 adapted to receive the apron when the guide device is in operative position with regard thereto. The sliver conveyed toward the aprons 4 and 5 will under ordinary conditions overlap the apron 4, as before described, and the wool will lap at various places at intervals, giving rise to disadvantages enlarged upon before in this description. When the guide device 8 is arranged in the position indicated above and shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, the aprons have an increased wearing service,

will not clog, and the sliver or fibers will not overlap the aprons 4 or disunite, as is the case in the machines at present most com monly in use. Further, the apron can be used until practically worn out without breakage to the sliver on the apron 5 after cominginto contact with or after passing the member 8, which'is arranged between the apron 4' and the adjacent small comb 2 coacting with the apron 5 in its length.

The device hereinbefore set forth as an apron-guide and sliver-conductor is readilysusceptible of use as an apron-guide alone, and in Fig; 2 the same is shown in position at B as arranged upon the inner side of the apron 4 adjacent the rollers 3.

In this in' stance the guide coacts with the apron 4 and apron-guide for wool-combing machines com prising a supporting standard, a guide memer carried thereby and consisting of a plate having a vertical edge thereof rolled so as to receive the standard, the upper and lower or horizontal edge portions of the plate being bent or curved outwardly therefrom to form 1(Fz lurved guide-flanges, substantially as speci- In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES A. REYNOLDS. [L. s] Witnesses:

JOHN MULLEDA, FRANK L. HANLEY. 

